Trying to explain the obvious once more, the xkcd Cold comic

xkcd "Cold" (I love xkcd)

After some thought, and some research, there may be a way to show, in a scientific manner one of the core disputes.  Experience has taught one thing for sure, that its 'impossible to to get through to a closed mind, but it is the internet, you never know.

The winters in MO warmed up after the cold sixties and the extremely cold seventies.  You can see that on the official MO climate center site.  The data clearly shows the cold period changed to a warm period.  Winters were trending warmer.

You can see it on the GISS map



and you can easily see it on the NCDC graph as well.




Because we have more data after 1993, it is doubtful anyone would object to stating the facts, that winters were warming in MO, and 1993 was part of a trend.  Even with the winters of 93 and 94 being colder than the previous warm winters, it's still obvious that the winters were warming.  (of course now we have the rest of the nineties, there is no doubt about the warming trend)

If somebody objected (and they did) that it was too short a time period, you could move it back to 1970, giving 24 years for the trend.